There is not a word in the Bible which is extra crucem, which can be understood without reference to the cross.  (Martin Luther)

This one event of the cross of Christ is a final revelation both of the character and consequence of human sin and of the wonder and sacrifice of divine love.  (Alan Stibbs)

Calvary shows how far men will go in sin, and how far God will go for man’s salvation.  (H.C. Trumbull)

In the cross, sin is cursed and cancelled.  In the cross, grace is victorious and available.  (G. Campbell Morgan)

As long as the world stands the cross will seem foolishness to natural man.  (J.C. Ryle)

All God’s justice and all God’s love are focused in the cross, so that it teaches more of God and his truth than all space and time beside.  (Augustus H. Strong)

Is it conceivable that God would have sent his only begotten beloved Son to the shame and the suffering and the ignominy of the Cross if it were not absolutely essential?  (D.M. Lloyd-Jones)

Life doesn’t begin at forty, or at twenty, but at Calvary.  (Elaine Kilgore)

Jesus was crucified not in a cathedral between two candles, but on a cross between two thieves.  (George F. MacLeod)

Christ would have lives, and taught, and preached, and prophesied, and wrought miracles in vain, if he had not crowned all by dying for our sins as our substitute!  His death was our life.  His death was the payment of our debt to God.  Without his death we should have been of all creatures most miserable.  (J.C. Ryle)